village
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English village, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French village, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin villaticus, ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin villa (English villa).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvɪlɪd͡ʒ/
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- Rhymes: -ɪlədʒ
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Noun
village (plural villages)
- A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.
- 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict[1]:
- […] belts of thin white mist streaked the brown plough land in the hollow where Appleby could see the pale shine of a winding river. Across that in turn, meadow and coppice rolled away past the white walls of a village bowered in orchards, […]
- 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:
- Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages.
- There are 2 churches and 3 shops in our village.
- (British) A rural habitation that has a church, but no market.
- (Australia) A planned community such as a retirement community or shopping district.
- (Philippines) A gated community.
Synonyms
- thorp (archaic)
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Translations
a rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town
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a rural habitation that has its own church
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French
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin villaticus, from villa.
Pronunciation
Noun
village m (plural villages)
Related terms
Further reading
- “village”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Occitan
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Noun
village m (plural villages)
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